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Author:  Lazavanti [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:46 am ]
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That's an ole timey gift from Phyllix. Just laffed and laffed when she explained that the guy who drovered her to get her labwork done, "didn't spare the horses." Now, me and Phyllix have shared many an oldtime phrase, but after 54 years....never heard that one before.

Meaning: The guy drove so fast she had to almost fell out of her zippy wheely chair to not fall out. 21st C. application-Focus and get on with yer purpose-we ain't using horses anymore, we're trying to get food to the hungry and power to the people.

"Hallo the House"

Meaning: I'm outside of your house with a shotgun, since you probly are the guy who got my daughter preggers. Or are you too cowardly to come out? 21st C. application: Are you really playing mind games, passive aggressive or stupid? Come out and have a REAL conversation that matters.

"Everything is jake"

Meaning: Status quo, copacetic. 21st C application: Of course I'm having a freeking meltdown, why the hexx are you even calling me on the telephone that didn't exist at the time that somebody said this.

"Jerkwater Town"
Meaning: A city that doesn't register enough population or economy to even make a register on the river's jerkwater shove back. 21st C application: You are a jerk.

21st C. things: SNAP (wake up idiot), PEACEOUT (I'm so done talking to you-seeya'), TLB (tasty lil baxtards-meat byproducts of sordid origins forced into tubular sausage forms-certainly deadly).

Taking notes, omitting names, laffing real hard,
holy smokes got me fired from getting to go to the sacred sweat lodges...if only they could noseeum me now...
:lol: :lol:
Author:  ciderman_nz [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:50 am ]
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In case you are ever washed up on Aotearoa (NZ) so you can converse with the locals.

"She's jake, mate" Everythings okay.
"It's my shout" My turn to pay
"A sandwich short of a picnic" A dim person
"Ocker joker" An Australian
"Bit of dag "- hard case, comedian, person with character
"Bach" - holiday home
"Hard yakka" - hard work
"Down the gurgler" - failed plan
"Laughing gear" - mouth, as in wrap your laughing gear around this sandwich
"OE "- Overseas Experience, what most youngsters do for a year or three.
"Pakeha" - non-Maori person
"Piker" - someone who gives up easy, slacker
"Pushing up daisies " - dead and buried
"Skite" - to boast, boasting, bragging
"Up the duff" - pregnant
"Wop-wops" - situated off the beaten track, out of the way location

That'll be enough for going on with. :)
Author:  Glenkeller [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:51 pm ]
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In Cornwall "gone Bodmin" means mental problems as there used to be a large mental hospital in Bodmin.
"Me Handsome" is used to address a male person
"Directly" means some time in the future could be in an hour, week or year
"Where you to" means where do you live
"Upcountry" is anywhere across the River Tamar
"Maid" is a female of any age but usually a young girl
"Me Lover" can be used to address either male or female
Author:  Torre [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:24 pm ]
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Linny, the expression I was familiar with as a child was, "Home, James, and don't spare the horses."
Author:  Lazavanti [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:35 pm ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
just love the sharing,
Torre-who is James?

GK-gone Bodmin!! Just love that....it really pixxes me off when someone tells me to go see my shrink. I can live with this one....no worries, just gone Bodmin.

Michael-taking notes and planning to confuse the Haole's over here. :lol:
xox
Author:  Lynn [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:53 pm ]
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These are great. I've never heard half of ciderman's before, nor any of linny's apart from "don't spare the horses"

linny - these days James is the chauffeur. ie whoever's driving.

GK most of those Cornish phrases are the same in Devon, but 'upcountry' is anywhere north of Exeter :-)
took me a while to get used to 'maids and buoys'
When we first moved here and a shopkeeper said "yes moi luvverr". I thought "but we've only just met" :wink:
In Devon, tourists are 'Grockles'
am I right in Cornwall they're "Emmets".
Author:  Lynn [ Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:03 am ]
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PS dunno if this is true, I copied it from
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 546AAh82xa

‘home, James…and don’t spare the horses”
A favorite expression of Queen Victoria. In the latter half of the 19th century, Queen Victoria had a carriage driver named James Darling. Traditionally, the Victorian ‘upper class’ called their staff only by their surname. In as much, Queen Victoria calling Mr. Darling – ‘Darling’ - seemed slightly inappropriate. So ‘James’ it was to be…Just imagine her Majesty departing the Royal train at Paddington Station, anxious to get back to Buckingham Palace commanding…’home, james! And don’t spare the horses!’… And that’s how an expression galloped into history.
Author:  Lazavanti [ Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:12 am ]
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LOVE IT!!!
Imaginary horses internally churning the Darlings within ux...
timex are moving really fast,
no whips required..
hugx,
linnyx
nor blinders
Author:  Glenkeller [ Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:25 am ]
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Yes Lynn, they are Emmets
Author:  amancara [ Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:56 am ]
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I got called Doll by a bloke [man] the other day [a real old London,as far as i know, word meaning woman] ---made me smile cos it took me right back to my childhood when i heard it a lot :D
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